Five police were killed in attacks in Ghazni and Ghor provinces. A US helicopter was damaged by Taliban ground fire as the crew dropped off supplies to a base in Nuristan province. ISAF forces fended off four Taliban attacks in Kunar province. Afghan and Coalition forces killed “several” Taliban and detained three in Kapsia province.
Anbar Salvation Council announces 4-member alliance
Ex-Saddam loyalists face transfer to Iraqi prisons
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered banks to move assets to dodge potential EU sanctions. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the US presence in Iraq is Iraq’s primary problem. Iran’s representative to OPEC said he expects oil to approach $150 a barrel.
Terror suspect’s lawyers fear for prisoner’s sanity
Pakistan to ask EU to amend laws on freedom of expression
Al Qaeda grooming Yorkshire pupils for terrorism
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the risk of terrorists obtaining nuclear weapons is increasing. The banned Students Islamic Movement of India has been in touch with terrorist groups that have been behind attacks in India.
Taliban Defends Peace Accord with Pakistani Government
The Taliban warned the government to abide by the terms of the peace agreements or it will carry out attacks. The leader of the Taliban in Mohmand said the government is not serious about peace talks. Peshawar is turning into a “walled city” due to security measures.
One US soldier was killed and 18 wounded in a suicide car bombing in Kirkuk. Al Qaeda fighters killed five civilians in an attack at a market in the Khanaqin district in Diyala. Three Iraqis were killed and seven wounded in a mortar attack outside the Defense Ministry. Coalition forces captured an al Qaeda leader, […]
Twelve people are reported to have been killed in twin bombings at a train station in the town of Beni Amrane in Boumerdes. The first bomb killed a French engineer and his driver; the second killed 10 Algerians as they arrived at the scene to evacuate the wounded in the first blast.
Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad orders banks to move assets to beat EU
Treaty tensions mount as Iraq tells the US it wants all troops back in barracks
Coalition forces capture Basrah-based Special Groups criminal in Baghdad
Iraq suicide bomber kills US soldier, wounds 18
The Pakistani government has worked to suppress all reporting of the peace agreement, which was signed in February. Al Qaeda can remain in North Waziristan “as long as they pledge to remain peaceful.”
Nasteh Dahir Farah, a reporter for the BBC and The Associated Press, has been killed by unknown gunmen in the town of Kismayo, 500 km south of Mogadishu. He was shot several times in the chest as he walked home from an Internet cafe late Saturday night. Fresh fighting between Ethiopian-backed government forces and Islamic […]
RAF first as Taliban leader is killed by plane … piloted remotely in Las Vegas
US unit helps Afghan Muslims spruce up mosques
Three British soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing in Helmand province. Afghan officials say the Taliban are coercing and forcing children to become suicide bombers. Taliban kidnappers abducted a Pakistani employee of an Afghan company in Kandahar province. A Canadian soldier died after he fell into an open well west of Kandahar City. Operation […]
Sri Lanka’s defense ministry said its forces had killed at least 28 Tamil Tiger rebels in the latest clashes across the north of the island. Fighting in the Mannar, Vavuniya, Weli Oya, and Jaffna areas saw one soldier killed while 25 rebels and 34 soldiers were injured. Sri Lankan military jets bombed a meeting place […]
18 Pakistanis from South Waziristan among dozens killed in a US airstrike. The Pakistani Taliban refuse to end cross-border raids into Afghanistan.
The North Waziristan peace agreement allows al Qaeda to shelter in the tribal agency. Five paramilitaries soldiers were kidnapped in Darra Adam Khel. The government freed seven Taliban prisoner in Swat. US Predators were reported to be flying in North Waziristan.
Iraqi Pm Meets Iranian Leaders
Hobballah: Hezbollah does not have training camps in Iran
Iraqis get on their feet up in the air
Afghans plead for ｣25bn in aid as disorder grows
Israel threatens to strike Iran’s nuclear plans
French army falling apart, documents show